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Re: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation


From: Steve Friedl <steve () unixwiz net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:47:03 -0700

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:29:35AM -1000, Jason Coombs wrote:
Cisco is responsible for this entire mess. Had they engineered a secure 
product around a CPU that was not general purpose, none of this would be 
happening now.

So you're suggesting that Cisco should have adopted security by
obscurity for its hardware design?

Really?

Steve

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